"Logos" LP
International Anthem Recording Co.

Over several Summer 2017 sessions at IARC HQ Co-Prosperity Sphere, the Wayward Machine Co storefront & our drummer's home (all on the same 3200 block of Morgan Street in the Southside Chicago neighborhood of Bridgeport), we settled into comfortable confines with International Anthem, making space to improvise, incubate & innovate. What’s heard on the ultimate product of this homegrown process (Logos) is us laying our voices bare, at once aware of cultural context, informed by aesthetic precursors, and yet fully irreverent to expectations or how any of this might be “appropriately” employed. Each composition offers a bridge into a sonic landscape that speaks to histories of migration and arts of living that have been central to everything from house music to blues, Latinx punk to salsa in the City of Chicago. Logos presents an idealized new progressive American music, as rooted in Chicago as it is communicable with the world. We have been steadily tipping forward into something more future-minded & universal this whole time, something that transcends the nationalism many of us are desperately trying to depart from, but don’t have the vocabulary to fully escape. "Logos," our International Anthem debut, is a bold & vulnerable push into this transcendence, our effort to proactively poeticize the future in sound. 

​READ THE REVIEWS
"Throughout the record, the quintet . . . offer a complicated sort of bombast, riding psychedelic riffery and heraldic horn stabs to moments of genuine ecstasy. even as grayer dissonance and rhythmic contortions darken the margins, it’s the sound of finding a center in spite of it all, or a peace in the midst of turmoil.” — Colin Joyce, Noisey
 
"Dos Santos may just be the missing link from Jimi Hendrix to Kamasi Washington....” — Will Schube, Bandcamp Daily

"The most thrilling moments combine a full-pelt Cubano dazzlement with moments of avant-funk, moments where the guitar dubs out and fractures like prime Eddie Hazel or Big Chief, moments where you genuinely can't predict what's going to happen next, when you find yourself hearing Pere Ubu and Chrome as much as Arthur Russell." 
— Neil Kulkarni, The Wire Magazine

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Management
 2antos.chicago@gmail.com

Booking
Miranda Lange
Worldwide Booking – The Awesome Company
miranda@awesomecompany.net

Record Label Contact
Scott McNiece
scottie@intlanthem.com
www.intlanthem.com